It should have never been opened. Now, of course, this is another mess that a Democratic administration has got to clean up.

Can this committee count on you to go to bat in the atmosphere of these troubled financial markets?

I would just urge you to be careful about the comment about 4 percent.

Isn't that, to use a common phrase, just ass backwards? $15 billion and then later after that's out the door we'll see a detailed restructuring plan?

Politically, it -- it didn't make a lot of sense. There are serious issues as to whether or not she's qualified enough or knowledgeable enough to be vice president of the United States. This did absolutely nothing to advance that.

Politically, it didn't make a lot of sense. There are serious issues as to whether or not she's qualified enough and knowledgeable enough to be vice president of the United States. It did absolutely nothing to advance that.

Let me be clear, I said you can call the dogs and light the fire and leave the house. I think it sounds over.

I don't think that's going to happen, but I think David it's a point to bring up.

This is not a close election this is a five or six point election. And that is not a close election in American presidential politics.

I think Obama won the debate. I think McCain had to win the debate. I don't think that he did.

I think that the campaigns negotiate these rules. I'm not a big fan of the Presidential Debate Commission at all.

From everything we have heard and seen of Governor Palin, she's a woman who's supremely uninterested in the world around her.

I never got -- I never heard an answer from that in that exchange. Do you know what her position is as President of the United States?

Hillary Clinton. Just off the top of my head, I would say he took on -- he took on Hillary Clinton and beat him, who is a minor figure in the Democratic Party.

Joe Biden, another one right off the top of my head or John Edwards.

McCain has vowed to continue the policies of this administration. He says he and Bush agree on every single big thing.

Every day that the McCain people get up they're going to say, 'What kind of thing can we use to distract people's attention?' And Obama's got to bring it back. That's the key to his success.

America, do you want change or do you want more of the same?